Mytek the Mighty Volume 4

Mytek the Mighty Volume 4
Published: 14 November 2025
Format: A4, 199 b/w pages, paperback with matte cover

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Advance orders can be made via Paypal (steve [at] bearalley.co.uk), price £27.50 including p&p. Please make sure you include your address when paying by Paypal. Please ask for overseas prices. Due to recent postal changes, American and other overseas orders should be made through Paypal in UK sterling; just e-mail me and I can offer postage much cheaper than Ebay's Global Shipping. Same offer applies if you want to buy more than one volume at a time.

"From the beauty of the African jungle emerged 
a nightmarish creature unknown to man!"

Mytek is still suffereing the aftereffects of Gogra's missiles when a new menace emerges: thanks to a serum thrown carelessly away, microscopic creatures are growing into gigantic monsters! Soon after, Gogra once again goes on the rampage, this time accompanied by a giant robot-rhino!

Vanishing sea vessels lead Professor Boyce—Mytek's creator—and Dirk Mason to investigate a mass of weed, only to find that it is controlled by their old enemy, Gogra.

Boyce, Mason and Mytek are sent to an uninhabited Pacific island after swarms of giant insects reach America's coast. A nuclear device may be to blame... but will they make it safe before chromo-rays from the device create more giant creatures.

Mytek is launched into space to rescue two lost astronauts who have crash-landed on the planet Umbra. The planet is bathed in a strong light, and almost as soon as Mytek lands, something bizarre happens... his shadow comes to life and creeps away, slipping into a cleft too narrow for the giant ape to follow.

Follow Professor Boyce, Dirk Mason and Mytek in their final adventures from the pages of Valiant.

Mytek the Mighty Volume 3

Mytek the Mighty Volume 3
Published: 19 September 2025
Format: A4, 206 b/w pages, paperback with matte cover

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Orders can also be made via Paypal (steve [at] bearalley.co.uk), price £27.50 including p&p. Please make sure you include your address when paying by Paypal. Please ask for overseas prices. Due to recent postal changes, American and other overseas orders should be made through Paypal in UK sterling; just e-mail me and I can offer postage much cheaper than Ebay's Global Shipping. Same offer applies if you want to buy more than one volume at a time.

"As the giant ape stared at Gogra, hateful memories stirred in its electronic brain"

Mytek the Mighty roars into its third volume, with Bill Lacey at the artistic helm and its arch-nemesis Gogra planning to build a robotic replica of himself: Gogriath! To power this giant monstrosity, Gogra needs something from Mytek—his brain!

Fitted with a new brain, Mytek needs to learn all over again who are friends and who are enemies. The sight of the massive mechanical Gogra sends Mytek crazy, but the battle between the two is no even match, as Gogra has fitted his replica with weapons and can control the giant ape with a form of electronic hypnosis.

Adding to Mytek's problems, a system of underground volcanic caverns contain a fantastic lava-monster that finds its way to the surface...

And Gogra isn't finished: he has used Gogriath to steal vast quantities of electronic equipment and has built a device that can be used to attract the Moon and cause earthquakes and tidal waves around the globe... unless he receives a huge ransom from every country on the World Council.

How Professor Boyce and Dirk Mason save their mighty friend from these monsters—both natural, mechanical and gravity-magnetic—is a thrilling adventure that will leave you breathless. 

Mytek the Mighty Volumes 1 & 2

Mytek the Mighty Volume 1
Published: 3 July 2025
Format: A4, 190 b/w pages, paperback with matte cover

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Mytek the Mighty Volume 2 
Published: 3 July 2025
Format: A4, 180 b/w pages, paperback with matte cover

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Orders for the pair can be made via Paypal (steve [at] bearalley.co.uk). The two volumes are £52.50 including p&p. You can order the books individually, price £27.50 including p&p. Please make sure you include your address when paying by Paypal. Due to recent postal changes, American and other overseas orders should be made through Paypal in UK sterling; just e-mail me and I can offer postage much cheaper than Ebay's Global Shipping. Same offer applies if you want to buy more than one volume at a time.

The latest titles from Bear Alley Books begin a run of four volumes reprinting the entire run of Valiant favourite, Mytek the Mighty. The giant robot ape ran between 1964 and 1970, the creation of Professor Arnold Boyce as the answer to rioting by Akari natives who worship a clay representation of an ape as a symbol of power and destruction. 

Boyce, whose laboratory is destroyed, creates a colossal robot in the shape of the ape-god which he and local game-warden Dirk Mason use to quell the riotous actions of the natives... but the Professor's problems are just beginning, as his villainous assistant, Gogra, begins making plans to steal the robot ape and use it to march against mankind.

The kidnapped ape leaves a trail of devastation behind it, unaware of its actions... but Professor Boyce has equipped the ape with a learning brain and Mytek begins to develop self-awareness...

This classic from era when Valiant was at its height of popularity was written by Tom Tully and drawn by Eric Bradbury, two masters of British weird menace stories, who are introduced in essays over the two volumes. Volume one contains the first of a two-part look at the career of writer extraordinaire Tom Tully, who penned many of the most fondly remembered strips during his decades-long time as a scriptwriter. Heros the Spartan, Johnny Cougar, Kelly's Eye, The Steel Claw, Slave of the Screamer, The Toys of Doom, Raven on the Wing, Football Family Robinson, Look Out for Lefty (the strip that got Action shut down), Death Game 1999, Harlem's Heroes, The Mean Arena, Johnny Red and twenty years of Roy of the Rovers — just some of the strips written by Tully. Volume two also takes a look at artist Eric Bradbury, using interviews with Eric in the 1990s and information from his daughter to build a picture of his life and works.

Note: Volumes three and four will follow at roughly two monthly intervals. 

REVIEWS
"Tom Tully packs each two-and-a-half page episode with bombastic scenes of battling mechanical monsters ... Eric Bradbury's atmospheric linework adorns the first two volumes, giving way to Bill Lacy's more dynamic style in three and four. There's much to admire about both artists, who never over-cram the action despite Tully's frequent, dense exposition." SFX 391, May 2025.

"[I]t’s quite clear Bear Alley have put a huge amount of effort in to making these collections look as good as possible ... Not only do you get some fantastic comic tales to read: the collections also include features on Tom Tully and Eric Bradbury, two masters of British weird menace stories." John Freeman, Down the Tubes, 4 July 2025